Welcome to Our Laboratory

The Laboratory of Narrative Research (LNR) is a teaching
and research unit that is part of the School of English at
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It has been designed
to bring together scholars and researchers from across the
humanities, the social sciences and other scientific fields
who have a special interest in the workings and the politics
of narrative production.

Research

Narrative Crossings 2019

Overview

This is a series of seminars that are addressed to students
and will focus on the ways narratives travel across borders of
difference, be they differences of form, medium or disciplinary
knowledge and methodology.

Narratives of Immigration:
Community interpreting as a right/rite of passage

The Laboratory of Narrative Research and the Laboratory of
Translation, Interpreting and Communication, with the
support of AIIC Greece-Cyprus will organize a symposium in
2018 which will focus on the process of narrativising
migrant displacement. In recent years an unprecedented wave
of immigrants has been flooding the countries of southern
Europe. The problem of communicating their narratives to
different state bodies (law enforcement and asylum
authorities, courts, schools) has been a major issue for
both the immigrants and the host countries. Community
interpreting is the only channel through which these people
can pass their stories to the host community, at moments
that can prove catalytic for their lives and the lives of
their families. This symposium intends to explore this
channel of communication from different perspectives. In
different “rites of passages” – police interrogations,
asylum hearings, court proceedings – interpreting gives
these people a “right of passage” that will allow them to
continue their lives.

The aesthetics of cancer-related performance and its reception in Greece

Virginia Dakari’s postdoctoral research seeks to determine
the place cancer-related theatre and performing arts occupy in
the Greek cultural landscape to this day by means of exploring
the ways the (re)presentation of cancer experience affects
audiences. The ultimate goal is to substantiate the argument
that performance imparts an immense transformative potential
felt by all participants and to disprove the argument that
hardly any noteworthy aesthetic outcome can be extracted from
cancer experience (articulated by Susan Sontag, whose seminal
work Illness as Metaphor reflected and influenced cultural
perceptions of cancer).

News

Symposium 2018

Narrative Crossings 2019

This is a series of seminars that are addressed to students
and will focus on the ways narratives travel across borders of
difference, be they differences of form, medium or disciplinary
knowledge and methodology ...